Re: Partitions

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Foz wrote:

> Hmmm... Ok, if that is the case, why is Linux, (a different OS as
> far as I can tell) restricted to the DOS partition format?

The BIOS looks at the drive too see if it can see anything it recognises -
ie, old-style partition tables. If it can't, it won't load anything. Linux
can't do squat about that - it's not loaded yet, remember.

They're not 'DOS' partitions per se, they're just a hang-over from the DOS
era.

Cheers,

Alex.

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